A serious heart problem inspired UK engineer Tal Golesworthy to develop a device that offers hope not just for himself but for thousands of other patients with the same condition — via redwolf.newsvine.com
One reason why people with diabetes can suffer more damage during strokes has been discovered by US scientists — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Beset by war against violent extremists, Pakistan is now thrusting itself on to the frontline of a silent battle: the world’s final assault on polio.
Asif Ali Zardari, the country’s president, is launching an emergency drive to immunise 32 million children under the age of five against polio, aiming to reverse an alarming surge in cases last year. — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Refusing to vaccinate a child is dangerous not just for that child but for entire communities. It’s precisely this point a colleague of mine was considering when he had the idea that parents who refuse to vaccinate their kids should pay substantially higher health insurance premiums.
It makes sense. Insurance, after all, is just a pool of money into which we all pay. In determining how much we or our employers pay, risk is taken into account — via redwolf.newsvine.com
German tabloids have been mourning reality TV star Carolin Sexy Cora
Berger, who died in a coma after her sixth breast operation, aged 23 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A woman in the US is able to speak for the first time in 11 years after a pioneering voicebox transplant — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A woman was temporarily partially paralysed by a love bite on her neck from her amorous partner, doctors reported in the New Zealand Medical Journal — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A new drug for skin cancer can slow the spread of the disease in half of patients, thereby extending their lives, a study says — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An outbreak of salmonella linked to a bakery in Sydney’s west is being investigated by the State Government’s public health unit — via redwolf.newsvine.com
South Australian researchers say a breakthrough in IVF technology will increase the chances of women becoming pregnant — via redwolf.newsvine.com
2UE’s Tracey Spicer spoke to The Australian Vaccination Network Inc President, Meryl Dorey about the information that she has put up on her website about Vaccination and how we shouldn’t vaccinate our children — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Plans to cut disability benefits could breach human rights laws, the government has been warned — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Australian scientists have made a discovery that may lead to a simple way of identifying a common and debilitating anxiety disorder — via redwolf.newsvine.com
While writing my recent post about how the Catholic church ordered a hospital to let a pregnant woman die, I came across this letter from the ACLU about hospitals’ legal obligation not to deny life-saving care. And I noticed that the letter mentioned an article in the American Journal of Public Health about religiously-affiliated hospitals denying emergency reproductive care to patients
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
American researchers say they have made a breakthrough in the quest for a blood test for Alzheimer’s disease — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Gunther von Hagens, the German anatomist famous for his Body Worlds
shows of preserved corpses, has told a German newspaper that he is suffering from Parkinson’s disease. He is preparing to become an exhibit himself, he said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A 1998 study that unleashed a major health scare by linking childhood autism to a triple vaccine was an elaborate fraud
, the British Medical Journal (BMJ) said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A new anti-smoking law has taken effect in Spain, outlawing smoking in all bars and restaurants — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A new report shows almost half the families of registered organ donors do not allow the organs of their loved ones to be donated once they die — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Hundreds of herbal medicinal products will be banned from sale in Britain next year under what campaigners say is a discriminatory and disproportionate
European law — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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